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...Jordan's line there is Bill Meigs, the hard-working captain, who has tried to play guard and backer-up in an effort to bolster the front wall, which has never lived up to early-season expectations. Ted Metropoulos, the other guard, and Orville Tice have also performed well, but the ends have been weak defensively, leaving the opposition a very vulnerable area...
...order to capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself and his camera. The film took three years to complete, cost more ($120,000) than Sucksdorff had in pocket. His chief backer: Dag Hammarskjold. Secretary-General...
...daily has died in the last ten years, and few new ones have been born. Three months ago, in Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 38,002), Leo William Bowmall, vice president of Manhattan's Bulkley Dunton Pulp Co., decided to try to buck the trend. He and other backers put up more than $250,000 to launch the Tallahassee Capital Post, to compete with the 50-year old Tallahassee Democrat (circ. 14,014). Last week, after barely 68 days of life, the new paper died. Even though the Post was small, with a circulation of a little more than...
Married. Roy Allison Roberts, 67, president of the Kansas City Star Co. and editor and general manager of the Star, early backer of Eisenhower as a candidate for President; and Mrs. Florence G. Ross, 61, widow of Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary under President Harry Truman; both for the second time; in Washington...
...Actor Helmut Dantine, who worked in Alexander, announced in Madrid that he would help wealthy Play-Backer Blevins Davis film Porgy and Bess, with a cast of Spanish "unknowns...